He said we should consider looking at dedicated gifted schools for her, but I'm concerned that since she's only been doing regular schoolwork for the last 3 years, she'll be too far behind and feel like she doesn't measure up.
When my DD was 3, we looked at the local gifted school. "If you don't enroll them at 3, they're hopelessly behind by kindergarten," they said as we walked through the lower school. "Oh, kids coming in as 5th graders take a month or two to adjust to the extra workload, but then they do just fine," they said as we walked through the upper school.
Totally depends your kid's level of giftedness, and the school's cutoff. If your kid is significantly above the cutoff, I'd anticipate her being fine.
